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I know this is super old… but the Colbert Report was a satire.  He was acting and making fun of people like Bill O’Reilly and other Fox New people.  These aren’t his actual opinions or views.  It was on Comedy Central!

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a day with Jennifer Medina

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Jennifer Medina’s photography is definitely something special. While she is based in NYC and LA, she is from Venezuela. With her use of color and the human body she manages to capture such magical moments. Her work feels genuine and natural to both her models and herself. After following her Instagram for quite sometime I contacted her about doing an interview on her work. I met her at a crowded coffee shop in Williamsburg. From there we wandered around and Jennifer managed to survive the cold weather in more than one tennis skirt.

How did you start photography?

I started photography- okay, my oldest brother used to travel around the world as a camera man for some Discovery Channel TV show. When he would come back, I was about 10 years old, and he would show me the most amazing pictures he would take. So I was like “Oh my gosh, I want to be like my brother,” so time went by and he actually gave me the camera he used to take pictures with. And so I started taking pictures of my friends and it wasn’t serious through out the years. I was just documenting our adventures and then I started doing it more and more and more. I started setting up shoots with my friends for fun and people started reaching out to me for jobs.

What is your favorite thing to photograph?

Oh, people. Faces, I love eyes. People is all I do. It is rare if I take pictures of something else.

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Who inspires you?

Movies inspire me.

Which movies?

I like watching random movies. Foreign movies, there is something about the subtitles that really inspire me. When I watch movies I don’t care that much about the plot, I care more about how aesthetically pleasing it is. And music, whenever I am listening to music that I love I imagine music videos in my head. That makes me think of photo shoots. And people, my friends inspire me.

How does it feel to be recognized for your work?

It feels nice. It feels weird, like the other day I was at a bar with a date. When I went up to the bar there was this 45 year old man and he was like “Wait you’re Jennifer right? I love your work.” This is a really old person and he knows my work. It was really bizarre. I just never know who is going to know me but, it is nice. It does feel nice.

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What are you working on currently?

I have been making music videos a lot recently and I just finished one and I have to finish another. This year my goal is to get amazing at videos. So thats what I am doing- working on videos and learning. You know practice makes perfect.

How did you meet your friends in NYC?

When I first moved to NYC, I started doing casting for Ryan McGinley. So, I met all my friends through that. I would either go up to them on the street and ask them for Ryan and we would become friends or I would find them online or they would find me.

A lot of your photography has nudity in it, is there a reason for that?

Every time I shoot nude photography, I try to make it sensual but not sexual. There is a boundary between that and I never want to make it seem like too- it can be provocative, I’m forgetting the word. I want it to be as beautiful as tactful as possible. I know it may seem that I shoot more girls nude than boys but I want shoot them equally. It’s not as if I’m trying to display these girls. They are just more willing to get naked in front of the camera. I love shooting nude, but I never want to shoot nude just to shoot nude. I want to make it beautiful. I love bodies and everyone else does too.

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If you could be anywhere right now, where would it be?

I want to go to China because my best friend is there. My best friend lives there. He was just in Korea modeling but now he’s in China for a few months. And I really want to go there and be a part of what he is doing. I think it would be amazing to shoot there with all the buildings and lights and people and craziness. Yah, so anyways in China. Like in one of the big cities.

That would be really cool. I really want to go to Japan.

Oh yah, I want to go to Japan more but Paul is in China. So that would make the experience so special.

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Jennifer’s photography can be found here

Interview and photos by Remi ( insta: @ghostgirlly )

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New York City Girls on Celebrations

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Devon

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What is your weirdest memory from a party? This is very R-rated, but my most memorable, weird party experience is having sex in a closet.

What was your best birthday? I don’t really celebrate my birthday with parties or turn ups because I don’t want to feel responsible for other people. My last birthday I just hung out in the park with my friends and smoked. So that was nice.

If you could create a holiday or celebration what would it be? I’d create a holiday in honor of Kanye West. My love for him is religious.

Do you still have birthday parties? I don’t, but this year is my sixteenth birthday, so I guess I should do something for that. My dad really wants to have a party, but my plan right now is to rent dogs. Apparently there’s this thing where you can rent puppies and play with them in the park, so that’s my plan.


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What is your weirdest memory from a party? My weirdest memory from a party is one I went to in my senior year of high school. We were so drunk, people were giving handjobs on the dancefloor, there was vomit on the floor. There was Jungle Juice in a trash bag, like people were dipping their cups in a trash bag. I almost fell into the vomit leaving the party.

What was your best birthday? My best birthday was my last one. My friend surprised me, she came back to the city from school and we went to a club and we danced and had fun and drank. That was really fun. 

If you could create a holiday or celebration what would it be? I think I would create a holiday for the first nice, warm day of spring. And no one would have to go to school, go to work, go anywhere. Everyone can just relax and enjoy the weather. 

Do you still have birthday parties? I have birthday turn ups, not parties.


Interviews by Simone Rembert ( insta: @simisane )

Photos by Remi Riordan ( insta: @ghostgirlly )

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June - New Beginnings

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So with the end of school nearing and summer so soon, we will all be having new experiences and making new memories. That is why the Crybaby team thought New Beginnings was a perfect theme to start off the summer with. In a few weeks I will be heading off to RISD for six weeks and my friends will be doing summer programs, going to camp, or getting a job. We will all be splitting up and trying new things.

This month we will be exploring those changes and experiences. Great interviews, essays, and photo sets will be posted. This is also the start of the quarterly color print issues! Get excited for a fun month!! 

- Remi ( @ghostgirlly )

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NYC girls on connection:

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Saiyak 

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What type of people do you gravitate towards? Usually people with the same interest as me. I’m into music, I go to a lot of shows. I generally like people who are into Indie Rock or Punk. I also like people who are really positive, people who have a good vibe and also people who laugh at the same things as me. 

What do you think your inner circle thinks of you? I don’t know how to answer this, I mean they like me but I don’t know how to describe it 

What do you keep the closest to you? My friends, they mean a lot me. I didn’t have a lot of friends in middle school and now I have friends! They mean so much to me! 

Do you have a soulmate? I guess yah, my boyfriend. We have a lot of things in common, we always laugh about the same dumb jokes. We connect a lot to each other because he is very different from a lot of people in school where it’s a lot of the same. We just have so many things in common, we can talk about anything and I think that’s really important. 

How has the Internet affected your relationships with people? The Internet has affected me kind of negatively. I had a lot of friends I made on the Internet and they all have a lot of followers. I feel like people like the attention they get out of it when it come to likes. People on the Internet feel superior when it come to humiliating other people.  When you have a inter group of friends and they fall apart they can do stuff to almost ruin your reputation. 

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What type of people do you gravitate towards? Artistic people mainly. People that I get along with because I don’t click with people easily. 

What does your inner circle think about you? I have few social circles that I’m apart of, I’m not completely apart of all of them but I’d like to think I’m chill and cool. I don’t know what to say. 

What do you keep the closest to you? Candy and friends. I don’t like being alone a lot, I mean nobody does. 

Do you have a soul mate? My bed. My bed is my soul mate, I love to sleep.

How has the Internet affected your relationships with people? Really greatly. It shaped a lot of my opinions when I was younger. It shows me new things, most thinks I know about art, fashion and culture in the city I learned from the Internet. It really shapes who people are now-in-days, there is nothing it doesn’t affect.   

Amerah

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What type of people do you gravitate towards? I tend to gravitate towards people who are themselves in front of other people. People who are themselves. 

What does you inner circle think about you? I think they think I’m cool.  I’m friends with people who are themselves and I think we all like each other because of that 

What do you keep the closest to you? My phone, its everything! 

Do you have a soul mate? No, well my phone and my pillow 

How has the internet affected your relationships with people? On the Internet we all understand each other except texting can sometimes send mixed messages.  

Olivia

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What type of people do you gravitate towards? I think I gravitate towards people who are interested in the world around them, people who are observant, can function emotionally in a relationship and people who aren’t afraid of being venerable with another person. I try not to hold myself back from who I become friends with or have a connection with. 

What does you inner circle think about you? Well, I have lots of different inter-circles because i have lots of different friends from different places. I guess, the only people that I function with normally are my parents, I think they think well of me. 

What do you keep the closest to you? My phone, a book, my bag and my metro card. 

Do you have a soul mate? Nope. I don’t believe in soul mates.

How has the internet affected your relationships with people? Its affected my relationships pretty positively. It pushes me to find people that will understand me further in the world, and that I don’t have to limit myself. When I was in 8th grade and was on Tumblr, I started making friends and noticing there were people like me! 

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What type of people do you gravitate towards? I don’t think it really follows a pattern, I don’t like to close of my opportunities. I always find something super interesting in someone I never thought I would find.  I’d say a lot of my friends have to be creative, honest and understanding. I wouldn’t necessarily say they follow a style or attitude. 

What does you inner circle think about you? I have no idea but I hope they think of me as someone they can trust and rely on. 

What do you keep the closest to you? Probably my camera, my notebook and felt tip pens. 

Do you have a soul mate?  Yes. I don’t want to say their name.

How has the internet affected your relationships with people?  As much I disagree with the Internet movement and hate how our generation relies on the Internet its only affected my relationships in positive ways. Its broadened my universe and allowed me too build friendships with people I wouldn’t have the confidence to approach in person.  It expands my universe. 

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What type of people do you gravitate towards? All my friends are really different but the similarity they all have is that they are open minded. 

What does you inner circle think about you? I’m not sure at all but I’d like to think they think I’m warm. 

What do you keep the closest to you? I guess my friends and money.

Do you have a soul mate? No.

How has the internet affected your relationships with people? The internet has helped me and made me realize things about myself. Even though its really awful its helped me learn a lot about myself.  

Mira

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What type of people do you gravitate towards? I gravitate towards people who like to have fun and appreciate lots of different things. Open minded people. 

What does you inner circle think about you? Oh god, I feel like everyone considers me a strangle little ball of energy. I don’t know. I like to have fun!

What do you keep the closest to you? A lighter, keys and a watch. 

Do you have a soul mate? No, I don’t think so.

How has the internet affected your relationships with people? It has helped it. There are people who I don’t see often but we talk a lot online.  I talk to a lot of people I wouldn’t be close to if we didn’t have the Internet.  

Photography by Remi Riordan

Interview by Mackenzie Thomas

Casting by Remi Riordan

Remi’s instagram: @ghostgirlly

Mackenzie’s instagram: @macnesium

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